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Re: st: A coding question


From   Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: A coding question
Date   Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:41:07 -0700

I would create a new variable (preserving original information):

egen var2=max(var1), by(year)

J.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Rituparna Basu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear STATAlist,
>
> I have a variable which looks like:
> var 1  year
> 1      07
> .      07
> .      07
> 1      07
> .      08
> .      08
> .      08
>
> But I want to make it look like this:
>
> var 1  year
> 1      07
> 1      07
> 1      07
> 1      07
> .      08
> .      08
> .      08
>
>
> Could you suggest how to do it? I have tried different ways but does not seem to work.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> RB
>
>
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